Tilo's Troops Handiwork of a Primatologist in Vietnam

When I First visited the Endangered Primates Rescue Centre (EPRC) in 1994, it consisted of a few small wire netting enclosures, housing mainly Hatinh and Delacour’s langurs. Tilo Nadler was unavoidably elsewhere, but obviously he set up a facility with meticulous husbandry on a shoestring budget, and its history, mission and Tilo’s vision for EPRC has inspired me. Since then, the EPRC has increased in size and scope, and Tilo has become a voice in the land - someone who is listened to both inside and outside Vietnam. It is not unlikely that, without him, the Cat Ba langur would no longer exist, and perhaps the Delacou’s langur as well. He has discovered a new species of douc (pygathrix cinerea), and with two colleagues, has "resurrected" a species of langur, Trachpithecus margarit, that had been misleadingly lumped in with the more widespread Germaine’s langur.

He has attracted primatologists from Germny, the US and from within Vietna itself, to work on the breeding colonies of the EPRC, and has founded a journal, the Vietnamese journal of Primatology, especially dedicated to making research on Vietnam’s very special, and largely unique, primate fauna better known in the world at large. Murali Pai has written about remarkable man and his innovative work in primate rehabilitation. I knew almost nothing about Tilo’s life in Germany, and indeed little enough about the fullness of his life and work within Vietnam itself. The text is written easily with flair and interspersed with quotes and pictures from Tilo himself, which flesh out the narrative.

The book will word about Tilo’s work for conserving Vietnam’s rich and precious primate heritage.

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